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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/3] fpu/softfloat: support ARM Alternative h


From: Richard Henderson
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/3] fpu/softfloat: support ARM Alternative half-precision
Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 08:36:20 -0700
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On 05/04/2018 05:26 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Richard Henderson <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> On 05/03/2018 11:17 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> (target/i386 notably does not do this, we should check how
>>> SSE and x87 handle NaNs in fp conversions first.)
>>
>> Hardware does silence NaNs.  I tested that earlier:
>>
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-04/msg03114.html
> 
> Does that include SSE?

Yes.

> I know the hardware will silence NaN's if the
> value is ever pushed into an x87 register (as GCC will do when
> spilling/filling float).

Actually, loads and stores are purely bit operations that do not modify data.


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